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Classic Reflections
An experimental short film playing with reflection through windows, mirrors, and other less reflective objects.
Foxtrot
"You know what Kant said? / That if everything went ok at the middle / It will also be alright at the end, / depending over the idea made at the beginning. / And then – as illustration – / went on dancing / a foxtrot." Produced with found-footage in 16mm format, "Foxtrot" is a visual plasticity exercise that deals with bad luck processes.
The Kitchen
The Angolan Civil War still casts its shadow across the life of a young widow. The camera wanders through the rooms in her house, recording everyday objects and activities, while she describes how the war entered the family in a poetic monologue.
When Mum Talked to the Lamp
Based on her book, 'Als Mama mit der Lampe sprach', this documentary short sees Nelly Türkmen recall stories of her schizophrenic mother, how they impacted on her childhood and the love they share for one other.
8 Meters, 4 Meters
"Art makes the familiar strange so that it can be freshly perceived. To do this it presents its material in unexpected, even outlandish ways: the shock of the new." - Viktor Shklovsky ***** This short hybrid film departs from the remediation of a low resolution .jpg file. A poor image to bring attention to a poor moment in cinema history.
Chilli Powder and Thinner
Chili powder and thinner painted the based on true story of young Malaysian boys in police custody, where they were brutally beaten and lost a dear friend.
When the Sea Sends Forth a Forest
Through a 3D virtual universe simulated by a game engine intertwined with historical pictures, a lost moment of history can be experienced. The story revolves around the memory of a Chinese survivor of Khmer Rouge. This tragedy, which took the lives of 2 million people, continues to reshape our present in virtue of today's narration.
A Letter for My Father
In a dance where a daughter seeks all the caress never received from her father’s hands, a letter is written by gestures, images and words in an attempt to rescue a relationship that was lost by fear.
Nova Pasta, Antigo Baú
A self-portrait short film by veteran Brazilian filmmaker Sylvio Lanna.
yesterday and yesterday
"yesterday and yesterday" is a film about observations made in spring 2020 and 2021.Two worlds separated by a year. Personal reflections mix with realities that sometimes change the filmmaker’s perception of the world. A constant return to locations that have been walked through. The observation of a changed world caused by a pandemic -in terms of shifting colours. Seasonal colour that are perceived quite differently by the human eye, the deceleration of planet earth have also alternated the spring of 2021. A question about the the future path of our society and a way to rethink our connection to nature.
You Can't Automate Me
Before container ships leave port, lashers secure the containers using heavy metal bars. They are the last port workers to do such dangerous jobs. In an equally physical cinematic style, each body tells its own story: from grieving for a colleague who died on the job to just keeping going.
Song of the Flies
The experimental animated film Song of the Flies (El Canto de las Moscas), translates the desolation caused by the violence of the Colombian armed conflict through the poetic voice of Maria Mercedes Carranza (1945–2003) and the audiovisual dialogue between 9 Colombian women. In 24 places, as a transit over the course of a day (Morning, Day, Night) a map of terror is drawn where massacres took place in Colombia in the 1990s. Archival images, the artists’ personal memories and the use of loops and analogue materials bring to life the landscapes ravaged by violence and build a polyphony of memory and mourning, a universal song of pain.
Sounds of Taiwan: A Symphony by Bao Yuankai
In the 1990s, Chinese composer and educator Bao Yuankai began composing Western-style symphonic pieces rooted in traditional folk music. One of his acclaimed pieces is Sketches of Taiwan, which Bao was inspired to write after falling in love with Taiwan’s people and culture. Tsui Yung-Hui follows as he retraces his musical journey, decades-long love affair with Taiwanese culture and how he came up with brilliant, groundbreaking work that artfully bridges East and West.
Observe These Words
Observe These Words focuses on endagered amphibians. The latin name for the amphibian, amphibia, refers to life on two elements (land and water). The two also draw on the structure of the film, as images depict the artificial, regulated habitat of small animals, whilst the voice-over emphasizes the call of freedom and future.
Outhere (for Lee Lozano)
After 'Communicating Vessels' (FID 2020), the artist-filmmaker duo Annie McDonell and Maïder Fortuné are back. Once again, the question is that of art, its teaching, the painful articulation between thought, practice and the living shell that embraces and brings it to life. An affair as ancient as the first Romantic period, its complexity fully intact, the challenge here is multiplied by the study of an extremely singular and insufficiently known figure of 20th century history: Lee Lozano. Painter, particularly radical conceptual artist and then recluse, for many years this woman filled similar small coloured spiral notebooks with her thoughts and plans for her work.
Corps Samples
In 1924, a marine crinoid fossil is unearthed near the summit of Mount Everest, a famous British mountaineer disappears and a Soviet leader dies.This simultaneity is the starting point of a narrative on the transformation of matter. In a vast movement, substances metamorphose, scales and temporalities overlap and human bodies nestle in the depths of great terrestrial processes.
Orbit
Shades of light, dark, and significantly grey, are explored in Orbit, which depicts notions of adultery. In this project, which blends elements of concrete and abstract, women of various ages give insights into their thoughts and feelings on their affairs. As they do, the black and white preconceptions slowly begin to melt off rugged, wrinkled, skin, which the camera interprets from an almost obscenely close distance.
Outtakes
In 2016, we visited Filmoteca Española (Spanish Cinematheque) in search of information for a research project on the documentary film Rocío, which had been censored in the early 1980s. Among the materials deposited in its warehouses 260 rolls of 16mm negative film were kept. They were the outtakes from the editing, footage that was left out of the final version. The forgotten images of a banned film come to life on the screen after 40 years.
Pagirnis
In her film, the director juxtaposes Lithuanian mythology on household deities and the current situation in the Netherlands, where the housing crisis has pushed people to live in camping vans. The stories of the inhabitants of the camping village about their destinies and life philosophies, contrasting with the footage of their vans, are a testimony of the effects of late capitalism on everyday life, from which the old deities have been disappearing.
Crimean Doctor
The film is about the fate of the Honored Doctor of the RSFSR, a psychiatrist, Professor Naum Isidorovich Balaban, the chief physician of a psychiatric hospital in Simferopol. He witnessed the birth of the ideology of Nazism, and then came face to face with it during the Great Patriotic War in the Crimea…
The Other Story: The Death of Senna and Ratzenberger
Imola, April 29, 1994: Ayrton Senna is at zero points in the Drivers' World Championship. In his team Team, Williams, someone is already beginning to be perplexed. Perhaps, believing that it is no longer the Ayrton Senna that everyone knows. The Brazilian had understood these sensations, presenting himself at Imola with the utmost determination of his career. The Documentary traces the three days that changed the future of Formula 1 forever, having the Senna Judge and the mechanic who dismantled Ayrton's crashed car speak for the first time, inside a hangar at the Enzo and Dino Ferrari racetrack.
Osha
This short documentary follows a mother (Aysha) and daughter (Osha) as they travel through the desert hunting with falcons, the traditional Emirati method that has been passed down through the generations.
SPARKLE
SPARKLE, a snowboarding short film by: Clemens Millauer, Anna Gasser, Adrian Krainer, Marko Grilc, Sani Alibabic & Christian Buchacher. Filmed around their hometowns during the 2021 winter season in Austria. “Just friends, snowboarding and having a good time while doing it! It’s so special with snowboarding how easy it is to connect and make friends. Even though we all do it different or in our own way, it’s still the same excitement which gives us that smile and sparkle in our eyes.” In loving memory of our friend and snowboarding hero Marko Grilc.
Greenwood
Bowmaker John Greenwood’s work ethic and artistic touch brings an intangible nuance and love to his craft that remains unmatched — even in the age of automation.
Homage to Satoshi Kon with Masao Maruyama
Japanese Masao Maruyama, co-founder of the Madhouse studio and producer of the cult films Perfect Blue and Tokyo Godfathers talks about the fantastic universe of mangaka and filmmaker Satoshi Kon (1963-2010), one of the most brilliant and fascinating authors of world animation, ten years after his death.
Home
Igor lives with his friends on the streets of a gloomy city. They drink vodka and fight, coming into conflict with the residents of nearby buildings. One day Igor learns that his father has died, and returns to his family home.
Homo Bankiva
To Suzy van Zehlendorf, all humans are crazy homo bankivas. In this portrait in documentary form, the artist shows us her process while working on a bust of Sophie Charlotte, the calming benefits of her favorite castle and the useful combination of spiked helmets and MP3 players.
Thom & Stoffel
Thom’s best friend is Stoffel, a 25-year-old Shetland pony. Their friendship is special, because Thom is a boy on the autism spectrum and he doesn’t make friends easily. But the inevitable happens. Thom is getting bigger and won’t fit much longer on Stoffel’s back.
Ramdan Muslim - in Quarantine with God
The corona year 2020 has been examined from all angles by the media. But what was it like to hold Ramadan in a year of restrictions, prohibitions and social distancing? Six young Muslims express their thoughts and feelings about a different kind of year when communal meals and prayer lines were replaced by a quarantine that pulls the individual relationship with God into focus. What can poetry and the quarantine of the heart teach us about a deeper meaning at a time when illness and fear are so predominant? And what kind of spirituality do we dare imagine in a society that moves further and further away from believing in God?
Man’s 2020
This film records the production process of a book about the Covid-19 Pandemic in Macao, written by Choi Sio Man, who has been an active reporter for over a decade.
landing
Shot at Bate Island in Ottawa, "landing" is made from hand-processed B&W 16mm film hand-coloured with organic and photochemical tones, video and found sound. "landing" examines moments of respite in between flight and movement, where landing becomes refuge.